St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-08
Time EXTENDED.
Aid. Mills Thinks the Sucker is on the
Wrong End.
THE COUNCILS DOINGS
The Subway Ordinance Practically
Passed---The Days Work Question
Again. Matters.

Before the adoption of the minutes at
yesterday afternoons meeting of the
Minneapolis council, Adm moved to
eXpunge from the journal the motion of
Aid. SwenSon made at the meeting of
the council one week ago, extending the
time for the reception of bids for the
construction of the pumps for the North
Minneapolis station to sixty days. He
explained that this motion was sprung
at the eve of adjournment without no.
tice and did serious injustice to the
committee which had advertised for the
reception of bids and i'll accordance
with the councils instructions. Propo-
sails had been received and bidders had
come from distance. Aid. Cooley
said that as resolution had been
passed extending the time he thought
injustice would be done to other bidders.
The motion to eXpunge was lost by a
vote of ID yeas to 10 nays. Aid. Mills
then moved to reconsider Aid. Sven
sons motion and read report of the
committee requesting such action.
This carried by vote of % to 5, and the
resolution was laid on the table and was
taken up in connection with the report
of the committee on water works which
was to the effect that two bids had been
received for pumps, seven for pipe and
one for the building together with one
for the entire work, except laying of
pipe. These bids had been referred to
the council unopened. He asked that
they should be either opened, or re-
turned in justice to the bidders.
The committee had already adj
vertised twenty-one days, which
oil IA finin
When this man James Waters, who is
raising all this hue and cry in the news
papers, wanted to sell his jumbo pumps
to the city ten days was plenty of time.
He believed that further delay meant
danger. Last winter water run short
and some $4,000 was expended for ma
chinery to furnish supply. He be-
lievcd that delay of forty OF sixty
days meant the city would be short OF
water for two years longer.
Aid. Phillips moved an amendment
extending the term forty days.
City Engineer Rinker in reply to a
request for information, stated that the
specifications did not cut out any bid
ders, there being at least ten pump
manufactures in the United States that
could bid upon them.
Aid. Clough did not think delay
would make any particular difference,
as the pump could not furnish any
water this winter if bids were accepted.
Aid. HanScom said he knew at least
one prominent pump builder who had
gone away expecting the time had been
extended in accordance with Aid. Sven
sons motion.
Aid. BarrOws wanted Col. Glenn and
S. w. Farnsworth to be allowed to adj
dress the council, but Aid. ClOugh OBJ
jected. Aid. Phillips amendment eX-
tending the time forty days was adopted,
and the bids were ordered returned UNI
opened.
COOLEY NEARING VICTORY.
Quite hub-bub was kicked up when
the clerk started to read the ordinance
granting the National Subway company
a franchise for fifty years. Aid. E. NJ.
johnson jumped to his feet and said:
THAT ordinance has been changed; it
should be thirty years. | move to lay it
on the table," Aid. Cooley explained
that the clerk had got hold of the wrong
ordinance, so upon the motion of Aid.
Johnson the matter was referred back
to the special committee. which reported
later, when the proper ordinance was
given its second reading under sus-
pension of the rules, after attempts had
been made by Aid. Nuremberg to limit
the life of the ordinance to one year,
and by Aid. Stoft to add a section COM
polling the company to pay 20 per cent.
of its net earnings to the city yearly for
the use of the street. The vote stood,
yeas %. nays 10.
THE CONTRACT SY STEM.
Aid. Cooley's motion to let contract
for grading Hennepin avenue. between
Lake street and Thirty-fOurth avenue,
f.>y re
brought Aid. Dwyer out in an emphatic
protest, he claiming it was in violation
of the days work resolution. The mo-
ton was lost by a vote of II to 16. Aid.
Cooley changed his vote and gave notice
that he would move to reconsider at the
next meeting. Aid. Dwyer moved to re-
consider, saying: 81 know I'm out of
order, but as the chair once allowed
Aid. johnson to do the same thing, |
think he should grant me the privilege"
The chair retorted that if he had made
one mistake he could not see why he
should make two, and ruled him out of
order. During the debate Aids. Dwyer
and Gibson claimed grading could be
done by the days work for ID to Is
cents per yard, while Aid. Cooley
claimed that it cost about 80 cents a
yard by the days work and half that
IL
COUNCIL TID-BITS.
A communication was received from the
city engineer, recommending certain changes
at the West side pumping. Owing to the low
stage of water in the river the supply to the
wheels intended to run the pumps one and
twO is entirely cut off. He recommended
the removal of portion of the limestone
ledge in the river bed and either to lower
the wheels or replace them with others of
larger diameter The report was adopted.
The plat of Camden Park addition was
again taken up and the city attorney raised
the objection that it created a jog i'll Lyndale
avenue. and further, that the plat had been
surreptitiously taken from the clerks Office
and registered before adopted. Aid. Gibson
made some insinuationS about "a snap game"
which raised the ire of Aid. Clough. The
matter was finally referred to the city attor-
ney and city engineer.
A request from Chief Stetson for the pur-
chase of twenty four horses to be used ON the
recently purchased fire apparatus, was re-
ferred
A notification was received from the clerk
of the district court that Fred Mueller had
been convicted of selling liquor to a minor.
The bill of Gessaman & Murphy of 1921
for printing the report of the board of water
works was passed.
The report of the committee on gas, that
no additional street lights be ordered this
year, was adopted.
communication was received from Mayor
Sutphin, of Duluth, acknowledging a resolu-
ton of thanks.
Permission was granted for the parade of
the fire department before the Exposition
closes.
The monthly budget of bills for Septem-
Der amounting to $164, 967 80, was passed.